Jflex, dude, the place comes with ads. Get over it. Move to the next story of interest. Unless you want to do like I’m doing right now: preaching. “Thought shall not diss the BoingBoing.” Don’t resist little guy, it only hurts more when you fight it. Your rebirth in the collective will be liberating…I love BoingBoing. We all Love BoingBoing…

Since I don’t have a record of your full comment, I can only make a stab at an answer. And the answer is yes. It’s Cory’s blog. He can do whatever he likes. If you don’t like it, don’t read it. Ur skroll bar – let me sho u it.

Asswipe Johnson @31: I think it’s pretty hilarious that someone who calls himself “Asswipe Johnson” expects to have his commentary taken seriously.

Look, Little Brother is a book about how to empower yourself in the face of tyranny. If you think BoingBoing’s moderation style is tyrannical, go empower yourself by starting your own blog.

The Internet isn’t the world of Orwell’s 1984, with all the Earth divided into three totalitarian surveillance states and a handful of leftover third-world slave nations. It’s a big, mostly-free Net out there. If you don’t like it here, go out and play somewhere else.

Will you entertain the notion that moderating is work? That the people who do it take it seriously and strive to be the responsible best? That perhaps some days it is not dissimilar to being under fire when the troll posts, the obscene, the vicious and the terminally stupid threaten to overflow the walls and wash away the worthy and all?
That this happens behind the scenes?

I have a request for everyone: Never compromise your honour and integrity. If truly wronged, die fighting before surrender. But if there is any chance you might be wrong or mistaken, or that the person doing the work of moderating might be tired, wounded or simply made a slip in one of thousands of decisions, then cut them, yourself and everyone else a break and LET IT GO.

Chris, for some of us, it’s all news about people we like, besides the ‘wonderful’ on BB.

I like to hear about what Cory and Xeni etc are at. Who they are working with, where in the world they are this week. Who has reworked their material, who might have a chance to go see Cory speak because he happens to be in their town next week.

BB is not just a list of found items on the interwebs. It’s a personal blog we can use to keep up with the people who run it, people we appreciate and enojoy.

:D I like the cover. I like the novel. && This post has reminded me, I’ll be in school once again, able to request Little Brother’s addition to my library, or perhaps buy it myself and give it to them!

So thanks, Cory, for being a, what is it now? Self- obsessed ponce, guilty of the heinous crime of promoting yourself on your personal blog? God. You should be ashamed of yourself.

I think the video ends with the amok reader taking a sledgehammer to the heavily reinforced front door of Boing Boing LLC’s glass-and-steel headquarters, breaking in, evading all the security guards, and winding up on his knees in the Boingers’ inner sanctum, screaming “I can’t take it any more!”

The Boingers turn around from their keyboards, phones, videocams, etc. Every one of them is wearing the Little Brother CCTV headcam. (Poesy, held by Cory, is wearing an adorably tiny CCTV headcam with ducks and bunnies on it.)

“What is your problem?” Xeni says impatiently.

Reader lets out prolonged scream of despair. Screams suddenly doppler away as Mark finds the remote control for the trap door.

We got really, really tired of hearing complaints about Little Brother entries when Cory was doing his book tour. He’d post about where and when he’d be making his next appearance, and twits who’d never bothered to read any of the LB comment threads would post about how tired they were of having to read about Little Brother.

They couldn’t scroll past the entry? They thought the people who wanted to go to Cory’s next signing could do without time-and-place info? It was a mystery.

Anyway, we got really, really tired of having to type the same explanations over and over again. That’s why Antinous has blanket permission to do whatever he wants to readers who complain about Little Brother entries.

Useful tip: if you’re temporarily banned for misbehaving in a Little Brother thread, the best way to get it lifted is to take an accurate count of how many entries Cory posted in Boing Boing over the last 90 days (including the day you got banned, Pacific Time), how many of those entries mentioned Little Brother, and what percentage of the whole that represents.

JFlex, rude is rude, no matter how long it took you to think up your comment.

Antinous, do remember that unpublishing produces the same effect without destroying the evidence. It’s occasionally useful to still have the bloody shirt on hand in case you need to wave it.

Strougly @6: What is that, some kind of half-assed anti-disemvowelling measure? Ain’t going to work, and what’s worse, it makes it clear that you know that was an offensive remark and is going to get moderated. Knowing that, why didn’t you just not say it in the first place, or post it somewhere that it isn’t going to get moderated?

Stroughly, if you donâ€™t want to read about Cory or his work, when you see a headline that doesnâ€™t interest you, just move on. This place is a product thatâ€™s being presented free of charge. If you donâ€™t like it, go to something else. Besides, if you were a writer and your fans were sending you stuff that reminds them of your cover art, what’s wrong with sharing it?